Submitted by
Kathy.ABUSOW
on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 04:37
General Information
Resolution
49147
IUCN Constituent
Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN Member organisation
Period covered
Geographic scope
North America and the Caribbean
Country/Territory
United States of America
Actors involved in implementing this Resolution:
IUCN Commissions
No Commissions are/have been involved
IUCN Secretariat
No
Other non-IUCN related organisations
Maine TREE Foundation, Manomet, Maine SFI Implementation Committee, New Hampshire SFI Implementation Committee, New York SFI Implementation Committee, Vermont SFI Implementation Committee, Sappi North America, Seven Islands Land Company
II. Implementation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Activity
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
Description and results/achievements of activities:
SFI is engaging with the Maine TREE Foundation to investigate sustainable forest management strategies that pertain to both past SFI Forest Management Standard practices and the new climate-smart forestry objective in the 2022 SFI Forest Management Standard, and how these practices mitigate the negative effects of climate change. The goal of this project is to develop a reference manual to inform how SFI practices may mitigate climate change risks within Northeastern forests. This information will be communicated to landowners and SFI-certified organizations in a way that allows it to be directly applied when making forest management decisions. Furthermore, an instructional document will be created which includes a set of guidelines on how to scale these learnings across multiple geographies.
Status
On-going
Report status
Published
Constituent type
IUCN Member